A Critique of Kathleen's Writing Samples located at:
Out of the three writing samples Kathleen provided I enjoyed the 'Friendship' one. I liked it because it revealed the personal side of the writer, making them easier to relate to. A simple topic like friendship is so important to establish and maintain throughout your life. The writing sample easily introduces the topic of interest and transitions into the reasons friendships should be cherished. The writer's writing style is constant and systematic.
Some optional suggestions may be for this particular writing sample is to personalize the piece by communicating personal emotion in a way that makes your audience feel those same good and bad emotions you experienced.
The topic in the second writing sample was a good choice. However, I felt somewhat rushed when reading through it. This sample did not grab my attention as much as I thought it was going to.
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The only issue I had with the third writing sample was how the content was projected. At first glance it was way too dense, otherwise I thought the writing was informative and useful. With that said light reformatting of the contents would help with visual appeal.
Presence
There is a certain honesty about Kathleen's writings. I feel like I can easily relate to her interests, aspirations, and even her unsureness with what she wants to do for the rest of her life. I feel like it wasn't too long ago I experienced similar feelings; emotions. Kathleen has a strong and welcoming presence. She sounds like she is open to learning new things and someone who is not easily offended.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Intro2: Lesson of Returning Home
It was the summer of 2005 and I had just relocated back to Connecticut, after living in Arizona for the past 7years. I remember thinking this decision to move home was big and I wondered if it was the right one. Even though, I grew up in Connecticut much of my growing up I attribute to the years I spent in Arizona. Connecticut for me never really felt like home, or maybe it's that my home life never felt like home. Fast forwarding 5 years later I am still in Connecticut and I've adjusted, although it took more time than I thought it would. These days I am learning a lot about myself and developing a sense of my own personal beliefs as an individual thinker. What I've learned from returning home is people change, circumstances ensue; nothing really changes and nothing really is ever the same again.
Intro1: Finding Beauty in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
No doubt the world and all its living creatures provide the passionate photographer with more than enough ideas to work with. Also, every photographer's eye is unique. I love to photograph anything and everything-in motion or in solitary stillness. Angles and lines often draw me in. I find happiness in finding the beauty in every subject or object I photograph, because all things have this quality. Some are just more obvious than others.
personal samples
personal samples
Thursday, May 27, 2010
My BioSketch
Hello People!
My name is Julie Marie Heffernan. I am currently an Interactive Communications Graduate student at Quinnipiac University. In addition to taking on-line courses I also am employed by Yale New Haven Hospital. Since starting the Graduate program I've started working night shifts. Surprisingly this was not as bad as I had initially thought. I heard somewhere that as you age you need less sleep. I think by the time I reached adulthood I had accrued many long hours of sleep time, because when I was younger I was ALWAYS sleeping. some sleepy facts I found interesting.
My job at the hospital entails helping those in crisis. My official title is: Mental Health Worker, which I was not particularily fond of, but its grown on me.
I earned my Bachelors of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Arizona. I minored in Special Education and Rehabilitation. Since graduating in 2002 I have had many opportunities to experience an array of interesting jobs. My first being a Case Manager for a non-profit behavioral health organization. I was a Child Protective Specialist, a substitute teacher, a waitress, and I think you get the jist.
After some years I thought I wanted to return to school for Social Work and found that was not for me. Eventually I make my way back to Connecticut and decide to venture in the career of nursing.
I am not a nurse, but I do feel the experience of nursing school alone had opened my eyes to many things I've neglected to see. I was on a straight long road to my castle in the sky, but not even knowing what my motives were. My purpose for everything I've done up to that point lacked substance and passion. Without those components my drive alone would not be able to bring me to wherever it was I thought I wanted to be.
Areas of interest include photography and sketching.
Given my diverse collection of work expertise, some transferrable skills are my basic computer software knowledge and productivity, my organizational skills and ability to work well with others. I've always recognized the importance of good work ethics and open to change.
My name is Julie Marie Heffernan. I am currently an Interactive Communications Graduate student at Quinnipiac University. In addition to taking on-line courses I also am employed by Yale New Haven Hospital. Since starting the Graduate program I've started working night shifts. Surprisingly this was not as bad as I had initially thought. I heard somewhere that as you age you need less sleep. I think by the time I reached adulthood I had accrued many long hours of sleep time, because when I was younger I was ALWAYS sleeping. some sleepy facts I found interesting.
My job at the hospital entails helping those in crisis. My official title is: Mental Health Worker, which I was not particularily fond of, but its grown on me.
I earned my Bachelors of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Arizona. I minored in Special Education and Rehabilitation. Since graduating in 2002 I have had many opportunities to experience an array of interesting jobs. My first being a Case Manager for a non-profit behavioral health organization. I was a Child Protective Specialist, a substitute teacher, a waitress, and I think you get the jist.
After some years I thought I wanted to return to school for Social Work and found that was not for me. Eventually I make my way back to Connecticut and decide to venture in the career of nursing.
I am not a nurse, but I do feel the experience of nursing school alone had opened my eyes to many things I've neglected to see. I was on a straight long road to my castle in the sky, but not even knowing what my motives were. My purpose for everything I've done up to that point lacked substance and passion. Without those components my drive alone would not be able to bring me to wherever it was I thought I wanted to be.
Areas of interest include photography and sketching.
Given my diverse collection of work expertise, some transferrable skills are my basic computer software knowledge and productivity, my organizational skills and ability to work well with others. I've always recognized the importance of good work ethics and open to change.
Holism Helps Others
My Sample Writing...
In taking a nursing theory course I have learned key ideas emphasize the importance of evidenced based researched interventions by involving a comprised collection of many notions. This includes additional theories of other disciplines integrated with nursing theory; and is known as “borrowed theories”.
The basis of nursing theory is supported by the Synergy Model, which recognizes the circumstantial “totality” of the “patient-nurse” relationship by encouraging a more humanistic and holistic approach to healthcare as a whole. As a result, interventions can be “tailored” to the patient based on their individual, unique needs; establishing opportunity for a positive outcome; which has affected the way in which I now see as the “patient-nurse” relationship. I now have an improved understanding of the perspective of the patient, based on this conceptual framework; along with being able to effectively communicate with patients.
Today nurse’s seem to be unaware to the patient’s core needs, and consequently having a negative effect on the quality of care being conveyed to the patient. Despite the reality that negativity exists and sometimes prevails in our healthcare system today; in knowing the Synergy Model is emphasized in the curriculum of nursing study, brings hope that the discipline of nursing can be steered in the direction of a more patient oriented focus of practice.
The Synergy Model helps the patient identify personal intention, providing a higher sense of awareness, internally and externally. Integrating aspects of one life area to another is important, because immediate competing demands and/or preferences may arise, and one’s well-being is dependent on environmental factors (social influences), which may involve interaction (interpersonal influences), and potentially prompt a response; affecting the outcome. Other influences that may be related to a person’s biophysical, physiological, and/or psychological status will most likely have an effect on their life experiences and health status.
It is important for nurses to look at their own beliefs and practices of patient care ,is will also be a factor in the patient’s wellness. Nursing theory: Modeling and Role Modeling is used to enhance patient outcome by providing an opportunity for nursing professionals to look at a situation from a deeper cognitive point, and to identify the patient’s main objective for therapeutic management.
This model allows for a better understanding of the patient and their needs; recognizing individuality but also providing dependable support at the same time. It just shows how a lifetime of growth and development shapes our surrounding environment; which we learn to adapt to. When modeling is used to enhance interventions, affiliated-individuation becomes more apparent, and role modeling becomes even more effective and linear to the patients unique needs.
The underlying driving force to making personal perceptions into desired realities is self efficacy, which is dependent on one’s ability to utilize specific behaviors for its purpose in improving the quality of one’s health; resulting in optimal wellness.
I recognize the importance learning about nursing theory has on patient outcome. In the beginning of taking this course I experienced some difficulty in understanding the material. In reviewing my earlier pieces of work, I found that I was making things more difficult for myself than I had to, and as a result I wasn’t seeing what the question was actually asking.
Nevertheless, with determination and positive feedback on returned papers (which I believe can make all the difference) I learned from my mistakes. I remained positive in my outcome expectations and over time I was able to build upon my new knowledge of theory and become more proficient in the course assignments.
Cognitively I am confident that this theory course has met my needs in that I feel like I have learned a great deal of useful information that will stay with me throughout my nursing career. As I progress through the accelerated nursing program, I find myself willing to take more risks, which I attribute to some of the theories I have learned about from this course.
The larger ideas from each theory contribute meaning to the term of Holism. Holism is the idea of a “sacred space” that is so impressive that it permeates a certain kind of confidence. I hope to reach this pinnacle point someday by maintaining a positive outlook on life’s unexpected events; seeing them as opportunities. I hope that the intention that motivates me transfers in my nursing practice; having positive impact on others.
In taking a nursing theory course I have learned key ideas emphasize the importance of evidenced based researched interventions by involving a comprised collection of many notions. This includes additional theories of other disciplines integrated with nursing theory; and is known as “borrowed theories”.
The basis of nursing theory is supported by the Synergy Model, which recognizes the circumstantial “totality” of the “patient-nurse” relationship by encouraging a more humanistic and holistic approach to healthcare as a whole. As a result, interventions can be “tailored” to the patient based on their individual, unique needs; establishing opportunity for a positive outcome; which has affected the way in which I now see as the “patient-nurse” relationship. I now have an improved understanding of the perspective of the patient, based on this conceptual framework; along with being able to effectively communicate with patients.
Today nurse’s seem to be unaware to the patient’s core needs, and consequently having a negative effect on the quality of care being conveyed to the patient. Despite the reality that negativity exists and sometimes prevails in our healthcare system today; in knowing the Synergy Model is emphasized in the curriculum of nursing study, brings hope that the discipline of nursing can be steered in the direction of a more patient oriented focus of practice.
The Synergy Model helps the patient identify personal intention, providing a higher sense of awareness, internally and externally. Integrating aspects of one life area to another is important, because immediate competing demands and/or preferences may arise, and one’s well-being is dependent on environmental factors (social influences), which may involve interaction (interpersonal influences), and potentially prompt a response; affecting the outcome. Other influences that may be related to a person’s biophysical, physiological, and/or psychological status will most likely have an effect on their life experiences and health status.
It is important for nurses to look at their own beliefs and practices of patient care ,is will also be a factor in the patient’s wellness. Nursing theory: Modeling and Role Modeling is used to enhance patient outcome by providing an opportunity for nursing professionals to look at a situation from a deeper cognitive point, and to identify the patient’s main objective for therapeutic management.
This model allows for a better understanding of the patient and their needs; recognizing individuality but also providing dependable support at the same time. It just shows how a lifetime of growth and development shapes our surrounding environment; which we learn to adapt to. When modeling is used to enhance interventions, affiliated-individuation becomes more apparent, and role modeling becomes even more effective and linear to the patients unique needs.
The underlying driving force to making personal perceptions into desired realities is self efficacy, which is dependent on one’s ability to utilize specific behaviors for its purpose in improving the quality of one’s health; resulting in optimal wellness.
I recognize the importance learning about nursing theory has on patient outcome. In the beginning of taking this course I experienced some difficulty in understanding the material. In reviewing my earlier pieces of work, I found that I was making things more difficult for myself than I had to, and as a result I wasn’t seeing what the question was actually asking.
Nevertheless, with determination and positive feedback on returned papers (which I believe can make all the difference) I learned from my mistakes. I remained positive in my outcome expectations and over time I was able to build upon my new knowledge of theory and become more proficient in the course assignments.
Cognitively I am confident that this theory course has met my needs in that I feel like I have learned a great deal of useful information that will stay with me throughout my nursing career. As I progress through the accelerated nursing program, I find myself willing to take more risks, which I attribute to some of the theories I have learned about from this course.
The larger ideas from each theory contribute meaning to the term of Holism. Holism is the idea of a “sacred space” that is so impressive that it permeates a certain kind of confidence. I hope to reach this pinnacle point someday by maintaining a positive outlook on life’s unexpected events; seeing them as opportunities. I hope that the intention that motivates me transfers in my nursing practice; having positive impact on others.
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